Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 369

“I’m leaving,” I choke out.

“No, please don’t go.” He chokes out, reaching for me, but this time I don’t pull away fast enough. “I can’t live without you.” He says, a lone tear rolling down his cheek.

“Can’t live without me?” I echo, my tone mocking because this is what he turned my life into, a fucking joke. “You have a wife, you have a mate who you’re bonded to, and you can’t live with me? Who am I? I’m just a stupid, desperate, horny slut who—”

“Don’t talk about yourself that way.”

“Why? Because I’m pretty and smart?” I snicker. “If you call me pretty, I’m going to make sure you never father any kids.”

He doesn’t flinch at my words, he simply stares, the defeat in his eyes making my heart sink. “You’re my mate.”

Again, my brain stops.

I seem to lose all intelligence when I’m next to him, and that’s exactly how I got here. “Excuse me?” I almost whisper, “What did you say?”

His eyes search mine. I hope I misheard him. I hope to hear him clearly this time, but he doesn’t change his words. “You’re my mate.”

“You’re an asshole,” I swallow, the words feeling like salt in my wounds. “I really thought you were one of the good ones, and here you go breaking my heart and failing my judgment.”

“It’s true,” his head slightly tilts. “You’re my mate, Noah.”

“Your mate,” I point towards the open door. “She is celebrating somewhere because you fucked a stupid runt, and got her pregnant so she can experience motherhood!”

“I’m telling the truth, Noah.” He insists. “Don’t you feel it?”

No.

I feel way too many things, way too much that will never bear fruit, and he dares mock me by telling me I’m the one thing that I will never be. “Everything I feel for you is a lie, it’s all crafted by you, and your mate, and I will never forgive you for doing this to me.” I gritt through my teeth. “I should have stayed away, my Aeliana warned me, but I just couldn't...”

“Because we’re meant to be together.” He counters, a little too quickly for my liking.

“Stop pretending,” I groan. “The jig is up, I know why you did everything.”

“I didn’t do anything with motive, everything between us was natural, Noah.” He says, his words so smooth I almost believe them, just as I did countless times. “I tried to avoid it, I tried to stay away from you, but I couldn’t. The more time I spent with you, the more I craved our bond.”

“What bond?” I laugh.

“Our mate bond.”

“Again with that?” I huff, “I’m not stupid, Rowan. You have a mate, if you think this will make me keep—”

“I swear on our child, it’s true,” he blurts out, his gaze unfocused, panicked. “I swear on what I hold most sacred, both you and Danielle.”

Oh goddess.

“You’re my mate, Noah,” he confidently repeats, sounding like a broken record, but it is I who breaks, it is I who gets out of here with nothing. “You’re my fated mate.”

I roll my eyes, tired now.

He really must think I’m an idiot, I mean, surely I must have been for falling into bed with him, I must have seemed even more desperate when I let his wife watch. Damn my kinks.

“You were not desperate,” he answers, “That was the bond.”

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